Miner killed in rock collapse at Kemerovo coalmine

MOSCOW, April 24 (Itar-Tass) — A miner was killed in the rock collapse at the Zenkovskaya coalmine in Prokopyevsk, the Kemerovo Region, a source in the Ministry of Emergency Situations told Itar-Tass on Sunday.

“The rock collapsed at 01.45 a.m. Moscow time on Sunday in the shaft,” the ministry said. “A miner was killed in the rock collapse. The dead miner is being recovered from the under the fallen rock,” the source said.